Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

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• Item Weight: 0.3 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00004DTNF
• Item model number: 5000
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #26,020 in Toys & Games (See Bestsellers in Toys & Games)

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• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

Now you can finally prove that all that prize money Regis Philbin gives away is rightfully yours--and you can do it in the comfort of your own home, thanks to the official, ABC-licensed board game version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Faithful to the TV show, this board game gets all the details just right--from the Lifelines to those laughably easy $100 questions. Players take turns filling in as Regis, quizzing each other from nearly 2,000 questions. As the prize money keeps doubling, someone's inevitably going to get stuck--and that's where the Lifelines come in: Phone-a-Friend (either a fellow player or an actual phone call); Ask the Audience (your fellow players); or ask to see the 50:50 option (cards slip into a plastic console that lets the host cover up a couple incorrect answers). The first one to win that ever-elusive million dollars is the champion. The box contains 1,000 game cards, five question-and-answer card consoles, Lifeline tokens, instructions, and plenty of fake money. Gather family and friends (two to five people can play) and start up a game of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire--you might never watch TV again. --Paul Hughes

Product Description

Now you can finally prove that all that prize money Regis Philbin gives away is rightfully yours--and you can do it in the comfort of your own home, thanks to the official, ABC-licensed board game version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Faithful to the TV show, this board game gets all the details just right--from the Lifelines to those laughably easy $100 questions. Players take turns filling in as Regis, quizzing each other from nearly 2,000 questions. As the prize money keeps doubling, someone's inevitably going to get stuck--and that's where the Lifelines come in: Phone-a-Friend (either a fellow player or an actual phone call); Ask the Audience (your fellow players); or ask to see the 50:50 option (cards slip into a plastic console that lets the host cover up a couple incorrect answers). The first one to win that ever-elusive million dollars is the champion. The box contains 1,000 game cards, five question-and-answer card consoles, Lifeline tokens, instructions, and plenty of fake money. Gather family and friends (two to five people can play) and start up a game of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire--you might never watch TV again. --Paul Hughes

Customer Reviews

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78 of 80 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Many more questions than the PC game. You get to be Regis!, March 2, 2000

By A Customer

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

It is great! It has almost 2000 questions (20 times more than the PC game), and you can take turns being the host! The game is enough fun for the whole family. Highly recommended. Hopefully, they will sell question additions later in the year.

81 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Looking for a good party game? Get the CD-ROM 2d Ed., August 6, 2000

By	tropic_of_criticism - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This version of Millionaire-At-Home works both better and worse than its CD-ROM counterpart. It's definitely better than even the CD Second Edition in terms of the number, variety, and level-appropriateness of questions. The questions much more closely approximate those on the television series than either of the two CD-ROMs. And the Phone-a-Friend lifeline is much closer to the show in that you actually CAN phone a friend, unlike on the CD-ROM.

Where the board game fails is in the implementation of the other lifelines and in its dumbfounding lack of music.

The 50/50 doesn't particularly work. On the show, it's effective because Regis himself has no control over anything, and because the player's ramblings appear to determine which responses are pulled. Here, the person playing host potentially has too much leeway in deciding which choices will be nixed. To be fair, the CD-ROM isn't much better at capturing the actual feel of this lifeline, either--its throwaways are predetermined by code--but its approximation is at least fairer.

Similarly, the Poll-the-Audience option fails miserably. Instead of being a more-or-less sure bet, this lifeline depends entirely on the benevolence of the people you're playing against. There's no "audience" in this game, because everyone's a player. It's in their interest to mislead the person currently in the hot seat. Consequently, you'll likely get the wrong answer if you choose this lifeline-which goes against everything we learn from watching the show.

But the biggest drawback of this edition is the lack of music. The show is entirely built around the music. Without music, Millionaire is nothing special. The music is the origin of 90% of the drama. A CD with the theme music should absolutely have been included.

On balance, the Second Edition of the CD-ROM game wins out over this one because you're just not going to have so many Millionaire-themed parties that it will matter that this version has slightly more questions. You might as well get the version that comes closest to approximating the overall experience of the real deal. Hook your computer up to your TV, run the audio through your stereo and enjoy a version that actually has Regis as your host.

59 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fun & Comraderie Is Worth More Than A Mil!, November 26, 2000

By A Customer

Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

A friend brought this over to our house one get-together evening, we had so much fun, he ended up leaving it for us. Not only did we learn from the questions, it gave my husband a chance to do his oh so funny (so he thinks) Regis impression. Of course in this version, even Regis plays!

Since then we have regularly added our own little playful additions, such as a red plastic phone for those all important call-a-friend moments, we play teams and count on our own for asking the "audience", and some of us get a kick out of humming, (one friend uses a kazoo), to supply the music!

This is a great game for non-serious adult fun. The CD-Rom version is terrific too--but we like the old-fashioned interaction that friends can have with a board game.